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Where was the first important battle in Vietnam?

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Dien Bien Phu

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When was the first important battle in Vietnam?

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13th March 1954

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What were 2 reasons for the first important battle in Vietnam?

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Vietnam was a French colony. After WW2 France wanted to regain it’s colonies

The Vietnamese wanted interdependence

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What was the communist Vietnamese party called?

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Vietminh

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Who led the Vietminh?

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Ho Chi Minh

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What happened after Japan Surrendered in WW2?

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Ho Chi Minh annouced that Vietnam was now the Democratic Rebublic of Vietnam
And that they were free from France

He also asked the US for help to secure their interdependence

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Why didn’t the US help Vietnam secure thir interdependence?

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They thought Ho Chi Minh may make Vietnam communist

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How did the French react to the formation of the Decomratic Rebublic of Vietnam?

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Theu set up the State of Vietnam in the south (were there was less suport for Ho Chi Minh)

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Who ruled the the State of Vietnam?

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Bao Dai who was under the controll of the French

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When did China become communist?

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1949

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Why did th fear of communism spreading grow in 1949?

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China became communist and started suppling the Vietminh with supplies, weapons and advisers

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By 1954 how mich was the US spending in Vietnam?

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80% of Frances War - theu urged them to send advisers

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What happened right before the battle at Dien Bien Phu?

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The french built an airstrip to lure the Vietminh over for a battle

The French had 15,000 troops and waited for an attack

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How did the Vietminh reat the the building of an air strip in Dien Bien Phu?

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They surrounded it with 50,000 troops with artilery on the mountian (which took months) and anti aircraft guns

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Who did the Vietminh have in reserve at Dien Bien Phu?

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Anpther 50,000 soilders

200,000 civilians helping them eg with the transporting of the artilery up the mountian

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How long sid the battle of Dien Bien Phu last?

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55 days

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When did the French surrender at Dien Bien Phu?

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7th May 1954

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Why didn’t the americans get involved at Dien Bien Phu?

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The korean war had lost 34,000 american lives so it was unlilly that congess would aprove plans fo another war

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What were the main reasons that the French lost at Dien Bien Phu?

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Local conditions
Local support
China's help
Vietminh commitment
French problems
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How did local conditions lead the a vietminh victory?

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The vietnamese people new the landscape of their countey and had saw that it was a trap

They knew which mountians they could put artiliary on and which it would be too hard to do so

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How dod local support lead to the Vietminh victory?

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The local villagers would do anything that the army needed
They helped move supplies - make roads ect
Theu could spy on the French

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How did Vietminh commintent lead to their win?

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Theu would work all day and night

Theu were fighting for thir interpendence (they had a good reason to fight)

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How did french problems lead to the Vietminh victory?

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Theu understimated the Vietminh
Supply planes were shot down
The troops lacked commitment - many troops were German and not French

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Where did 9 countries meet to discuss what would happen to Vietnam?

What did this result in?

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Geneva

The geneva accords

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What did the Geneva Accords do?
Seperate Vietnam along the 17th parallel Ho Chi Minh would run North Vietnam Bao Dai would run South Vietnam For up to 300 days people of Vietnam could move between the North and South freely No foreign troops could set up bases in Vietnam In July 1956 elections would be help for leadership for a united Vietnam (under international supervision)
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Who did Bao Dai elect prime minister?
Ngo Dinh Diem
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When was Diem elected Prime Minister?
June 1954
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How did Diem get controll of South Vietnam?
Dai went ot France so Diem ruled the country
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What was the capital of North Vietnam?
Hanoi
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What was the capital of South Vietnem?
Saigon
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Which countries were at the Geniva summit?
USA, USSR, UK, Cambodia, China, France, Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam
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What disagreements were made in Geneva?
South Vietnam and the USA refused to obay the Accords North Vietnam wanted Vietnam to be split by the 13th parallel and for elections to be in 6 months
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Why was the agreement in Geneva a waste of time?
Neither country wanted the agreements | China pressurised North Vietnam to give in
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What haopened to advisers (of the west) in Vietnam after the Geneva Accords?
US advisers stayed | French advisers left
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Who created the Domino Theory?
Eisenhower
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What was the Domino Theory?
The thought that is Vietnam fell to communism other countries like Laos, Cambodia and Burma would also fall to communism
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What did Eisenhower set up to stop the Domino Theory?
SEATO South East Asia Treaty Organisation
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When was SEATO set up?
September 1954
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Who was in SEATO?
USA, UK, France, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand
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What did the members of SEATO agree?
They would act together with force if necesary to stop communism spreading in Southeast Asia
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Why didn't people trust in Diem's government?
There were still many communist in South Vietnam Other religious and political geoups had their own armies Diem was Catholic (not Buddist) Diem mainly gave Jobs to his family and Catholics Diem had little intrest in the countyside only in Saigon He was seen as a US puppet
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Why was Diems religion a problem?
He was a Catholic in a country filled with Buddists Therefore many peopel didn't trust him
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Who ran many villages? | What effect did this have?
Corrupt and greedy landlords which reflected badly on Die s reputation
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How did Eisenhower support Diem?
Sending more advisers to train the ARVN
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What happened in October 1955?
Bao Dai spoke out against Diem's government
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When did Dai speak put against Diem's government?
October 1955
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What was Diem's responce to Dai challenging him?
He held a referendum with the people voting for him to remain in power (theu were widly seen as corrupt and fixed
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Why effects did election in 1955 being fixed have?
Looked like US supported Diem as they supervised them | Made people like Diem less
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Why were elections die to be held on the 16th July 1956? | What happened?
In accordance of the Geneva Accord Diem refused as his government didn't aprove the Geneva Accords (Bao Dai did)
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How did US advisers describe Diem?
Reliant on force to stay in power
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Why did the US support Diem?
Basicly because anything was better than communism - Diem tecniquily was Anti-Communism (although he wasn't much better) (Truman Doctrine)
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What was a feature of Diem's rule in Vietnam?
Took US money but not advice - assured Eisenhower that the people supporte dhim (when they didn't) Started a campaign against his political opponests (mainly communists)
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What happened with Diem's campagn against his political opponesnts?
He begame to arrest polotical and religous opponets His "dencounce a communist" campaign urged people to report communist to the government In 1957 he sent the ARVN into the countryside to find and arrest communists - 65,000 arrests, 2000 killed
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What was the Vietcong of (VC)?
Communists in South Vietnam
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Why did the North Vietnamese support the VC?
In hope that they would start a revolution and bring communism to power so the North could take control
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What was the Ho Chi Minh trail?
Pathsways (the majority in Laos and Cambodia that was used by the VC to supply the Vietnam War
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What happened (the evolution) of the Ho Chi Minh trail?
By 1960 the path became wider By 1974 there were ven some underground hospitals, storages and some of the trail became paved
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What happened in November 1960
Some army leaders tried to overthrown Diem but failed
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What was a result of the coup on Diem?
Diem blamed the US | -the US urged him to become more democratic and popular with the people but Doem ignired the US's advice
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What does the NLF stand for?
National Liberation Front
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What did the NLF do?
Organised political opposition to Diem - told villagers to ignore Diem and the governemnt
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What happened in December 1960?
The VC joined with the NLF - they encourged villagers to ignore Diem and the governemnt
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By the end of 1960 how mixh of South Vietnma was under Diem's control?
Under half
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When did JFK become president?
1961
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How did JFK esculate the Vietnam conflict?
Sent about 16,000 more advisers by November 1963 He told advisers to use counter-insurgency tactics He wanted the ARVN to hunt down the VC He wanted a policy of pacification
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What are Counter-insurgency tactics?
Fighting gurrilla tactics both by military attacks and by winning the hearts and minds of the people
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What is a policy of pacification?
Winning the "hearts and minds" of the population
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By 1961 how many VC were there in South Vietnam?
12,000
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Why was it hard for the ARVN to win the hearts and minds of the people?
The army saw the vilagers as inferior to them The villagers saw the soldiers as oppresors who were part of the corrupt government
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Who were green berets?
US special forces who trained villagers to be protected from the VC
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Why did the green bertes mostly fail?
The VC would leave the villages in day but come back at night They were forign and wern't trusted by the villagers
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When did JFK autherise the uses of defoliants?
December 1961
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When did JFK autherise the use of defolients?
December 1961
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Which thing of Diem's work did the US support?
Stragetic Hamlet Program
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What was a stragetic hamlet?
Large new villagers surrounded by barbed wire and deffended by the ARVN with facilities such as schools and clinics
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What was the point of the strategic hamlets?
The VC wouldn't be able to recruit new people
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Hiw many green berets helped set up the strategic hamlets?
800
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When did work on the strategic hamlets start?
January 1962
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How many strategic hamlets were built in in a month?
In September 1962 5,000
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What was a weekness of the strategic hamlets?
Many villagers didn:t want to leave the land were their ancensters were burried and where they were near family members Diem's governemnt failed to provide enough food - some starvation VC were let in because it was impossible to tell who was i the VC and who wasn't
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What was the name of the 2nd important battle?
Ap Bac
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When did the South Vietnamese loose the 2nd important battle in Vietnam?
2nd January 1963
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What happened at Ap Bac?
ARVN lost to the VC even though they ARVN outnembered the VC 5-1 and had better weapons
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What US casulaties were there in Ap Bac?
5 helicopers were lost 3 advisers 60 troops
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How mnay VC casulaties were there at Ap Bac?
Only 3 bodies were found | Unlikly only 3 died but there was little casulaties
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What happened on the 6th May 1963?
Diem's troops fired on a Buddhist procession 9 died 14 injured
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What happened in June 1963?
Diem banned the Buddists from flying their flag for the Buddha's borthday
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What happened on the 11th of June?
Having informed the press about hus plans a day before Quand Duc (a buddist monk) set himslef on fire at a bussy Saigon Junction - and burnt to death as the world watched (1 month after violence in Birmingham)
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What was the name of the monk that set himslef on fire?
Quang Duc
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What was JFK's reaction to the suicide?
He was expressing shock at the photos only 1 month after expressing shoch of the photos from Birmingham
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What did Diem do in August 1963?
Despite Kennedy's requests he increased persecution of Buddists
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What was a result of Diem increasing presecution of Buddists?
The US made it clear that they were no longer supporting Diem
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When was Diem overthrown?
1st November
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What happened on the 1st November?
Diem was overthrown by ARVN generals - the US hurd what was going to happen but dodn't inform Diem - Diem was Assasonated.
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What did JFK's stress his aims in Vietnam was?
Influence to make a new democratic governmet To win over the people of Vietnam Withdraw US advisers and other forces is possible soon
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Whne was JFK's assasonated?
22nd November 1963
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Who took over after Diem?
Minh

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